Had to refresh my memory of “Bleak House”. Mrs Jellyby, I gather, worried about the natives of Borrioboola-Gha in Nigeria while her own children fell into the grate. After that, those “Oh my children” lines really sprung from the page. It’s true, I have seen this many times in my life – especially in the non-existent parenting of so-called concerned citizens and local politicos whose own children are totally lost, messed up and careening towards the next horror of their own making.